Awareness training: How much is too much?

Security experts agree that humans are the weakest link in the security chain. Virtually all of them agree that security awareness training can strengthen many of those weaknesses.

But how best to do that can generate some debate.

Lysa Myers, a security researcher at ESET, summarized in a recent post what she said was a collective message from several presentations at the recent Black Hat conference: While it is possible to train employees to be “hyper-vigilant, it can create more problems than it solves.

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